‘See it destroyed’: Amazon’s 'woke' attempt at female Bond shot down

[@JamesBond-vh9kn]

If women want a James Bond type character, create your own and leave James Bond alone

[@BaldurGunnarsson]

Yep. "My name is Blaise .. Modesty Blaise."

[@ahmadzubirzahid8827]

Women keep on invading men’s spaces. Create your own space, or your own fictional character. Leave James Bond alone.

[@WeveGotBush]

Bond Trans Bond?

[@vxy357]

There's Cleopatra Jones and possibly Christy Love.

[@1213philly]

@@vxy357 😂IF you're a fellow "Boomer" -- a great big Hi to you!🙂 'Get Christy Love'; it came on Wednesdays on ABC, if there aren't TOO many cob webs in my memory bank.😏 And Pam Grier was something else, wasn't she?🙂 I used to want to look like either one of them. Silly youth.🙃

[@TheTinyRedDot]

Barbara Broccoli, the owner of the intellectual property rights to James Bond, has been fighting against the woke Amazon executives for over 3 years now. She would rather not gain another penny than to see JB go woke like LOTR...God bless her

[@indiathylane2158]

Copyright to Bond as a fictional character has expired. Now anyone can take the name and use it... within limits. Just as they used Sherlock Holmes when Conan Doyle's copyright on the character ran out.

[@TheTinyRedDot]

@@indiathylane2158 you clearly have no idea what you are talking about. Trademark vs copyright. Google it. If Amazon's lawyer can bypass EON Productions Limited and Danjaq LLC, which control the James Bond intellectual property (IP), they would have done so long ago since 2018 when they acquired MGM. They can't, and hence we have this situation.

[@christiandupille3690]

Not being snippy but why did she sign off on the No Time To Die wokefest...I'm not sure about this story

[@DavidM-mb1vx]

NTTD was woke and trash

[@CaveWyatt]

I had wondered about her. I thought I’d heard that she was part of the group pushing the Woke change.

[@zerocaige]

Everything woke turns to sh**.

[@electro_sykes]

Like marvel

[@leonharrison800]

Identity politics will win,here and globally. 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈😡🔥

[@Georgina-l4p]

A great man once said that.

[@MAte925]

@@zerocaige eg Disney version of Star Wars

[@erroreliminator2.076]

Superhero movies are crap whether it was woke or not. Marvel superheroes are a joke

[@johnhegarty5194]

No way, it’s a sacred place, show some respect. The names Bond, JAMES Bond. 👍🏻🇦🇺

[@Steve-yu5pf]

Next they will introduce the trans bond.

[@JohnnyPirelli-p5q]

It can never be Jane Bond ….

[@Linda12345]

James Bond, men want to be him and have ALL of the toys, women want to be with him, plain and simple, people do NOT want a woke female Jane Bond

[@tamimrktz6966]

Bond is a Caucasian Scottish man. That's the source material. Come up with your own stuff.

[@Mitch_Kelly]

Sir Christopher Lee was Scottish?

[@vxy357]

AMEN TO THAT!!!!

[@markhill9275]

​@@Mitch_KellyHe was never Bond!

[@-joe-davidson]

Anglo Saxon Scottish man

[@Skipper.17]

Half Scottish half Swiss if you read the book

[@nigden1]

Why can't women just be women, we don't want blokes playing Boadicia or Elizabeth the first for god's sake.

[@realfamilyman]

Shhh! Pedowood will hear you!!!

[@Prognosis__]

James Bond, not Jamie Bond

[@ScottyPimpinATL]

Jane

[@queenslander7756]

J’aimé

[@normbissonnette8866]

@@ScottyPimpinATL Or Jane Blond ...

[@billy-jadeachiu2296]

0:11 WHY do these people FEEL THE NEED to makeover a CLASSIC story line??? Ughhhhh JAMES BOND 007 IS MALE 100% STOP TRYING TO CHANGE IT...LEAVE IT BE!!!! Yes and I'm a female who grew up on James Bond movies!!! And I'm a woman that is secure in herself.

[@vxy357]

They did the same thing to Indiana Jones. That last movie was the worst and made the Crystal Skull look like Oscar material.

[@every1665]

As the One Nation guy pointed out - there are places sacred to aboriginal Australians that are off limits to everyone else, no discussion. As they say: If you want to find out who's really in charge, just notice who you're not allowed to insult.

[@BerenikiRegina]

James Bond is white. James Bond is male. James Bond (let's face it) IS Sean Connery.

[@georget8019]

And good with women in the right way; not the woke way. What idiots!😡🤬

[@howiedewin3688]

Smith & Wesson: your six are up.

[@legolads1732]

As a Scot I can't agree more with that

[@mikesmith-po8nd]

We're lucky that they don't want to make Bond trans.

[@maynardcarmer3148]

Don't go giving them any ideas, now.

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

Trans, black and disabled. Oh, and overweight.

[@vxy357]

Give it time!

[@WeveGotBush]

@@mikesmith-po8nd Bond Trans Bond, Has a ring to it😂

[@BerenikiRegina]

You are tempting Providence.😂

[@nicholasmatthews5989]

It is an absolute disgraced that the Vic Gov wants to hold drunken host parties at the Remembrance Shrine. The Remembrance Shrine is a place of respect to our great service men and women. The Remembrance Shrine is to remember those who died or suffered for Australia's cause in all wars and armed conflicts, it is not for parties. Those that have served and are serving are the reason why there is an Australia. The Vic Gov is pathetic.

[@indiathylane2158]

"Drunken host parties"? Is that what they said in their media release? What a shame the anti-vax marchers disrespected it so much after trying to claim the Shrine as their own.

[@jerrywong5960]

The Australian soldiers died for what? Why not hold a birthday party or weddings there? So disrespectful.

[@Scotty123-o3u]

They certainly didn’t die to defend an American owned media company that abuses its position for its own selfish business interests while dividing Australians for political benefit.

[@camerontaylor1771]

Absolutely! Shameful to even publicly consider Disgraceful

[@1970FORDBIGBLOCK]

@@Scotty123-o3u Clown

[@ch3nz3n]

I guess nobody learned anything when the last Bond movie failed due to this garbage? Oh well...

[@urbanfrog1]

As a woman I can definitively say... we do not want a female James Bond to emulate, we want a male James Bond to fantasize about!

[@CrazyMazapan]

Yes! Thank you for saying that. I'm a woman and I'm bored with women everywhere. I want a good male lead to fantasize about.

[@johnskibajr5691]

The last Bond movie I watched was when a woman was assigned the 007 number. In essence they did gender swap that James Bond role by stating that James bond was retired but not his number. I stopped watching at that point and will stick with the older movies.

[@MAte925]

I didnt bother watching it as soon as i'd heard it had gone woke!!!🤑

[@indiathylane2158]

Bond died at the end. And in the credits it did said "007 Will Return", as common in later films, altho they all said "James Bond Will Return in____ (next movie already being made)". I read at the time, the actress Lashana Lynch whose character took the 007 prefix would return as 007 in the next film. It did seem a distortion of Ian Fleming's intent, but on the other hand, the British Intelligence at the time of the books was quite small and the notion seemed to be the agents with 'a licence to kill' wouldn't number more that 10. References are made to other 00 prefix agents who died or retired. Mostly killed.

[@indiathylane2158]

I don't want a female main character using the 007 prefix for a streaming service's profits. But an authentic part of the Fleming books was Bond was threatened with losing the 007 prefix and being demoted/transferred. He'd become jaded, resentful, drank too much and failed fitness tests. Especially in the later books, so that part was near 'real".

[@theknowbot5000]

I that's the point I stopped watching too

[@snelgrave101]

It appears they are just Looking to offend at any opportunity now just because they can, yet somehow still feel offended at everything else.

[@vxy357]

EXACTLY!!!! 110%!

[@noblepolygon8694]

As a black guy please leave Bond as a white British man. I’m so tired of race and gender swaps

[@jerirotramel9306]

That is like letting people have parties in Arlington Cemetery or at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers, here in the USA, what a shame and DISRESPECTFUL AND DISGUSTING.

[@daemon1143]

If the Vic government needs money to keep the Shrine of Remembrance open, they should sack 70% of the bureaucracy and cut all spending on arts. On the subject of a female James Bond, it's not that they think we need a female James Bond, it's that they want to remove the hero figure of the male James Bond.

[@nicholasmatthews5989]

"NO TIME TO DIE", the latest James Bond movie, was too woke as it is. I gave it 1 out of 10. In the movie there was a female 007, seemed like a DEI pick, and James Bond had a child, and James Bond died at the end, did not escape. It was a BS James Bond movie. The only high point was agent Paloma that helped Bond, whom should had been the Bond girl. It was the worst Bond movie ever, it did not follow the Bond formula. And I will never accept a female Bond.

[@vxy357]

ME NEITHER!!! There are too many female spy characters that could be used.

[@MAte925]

Didnt bother watching it !

[@MAte925]

@@nicholasmatthews5989 didnt bother watching it

[@indiathylane2158]

Of course it followed the Bond formula, complete with two main female characters, betrayal, Bond being responsible for the destruction of a master-mind's huge hidden lair. I'm totally against the perversion of the male, traditional Bond character, but it's not unlikely that, with his tally or women, he fathered a kid or two. Setting up the Nomi character as Bond's replacement was really wrong. I'd never call it the worst Bond movie. I'd give that award to some of the Roger Moore films, where he openly smirked at the camera, clearly saying "Yeah, I know it's sh1t, but it pays well". Or where the makers failed to find a decent Connery replacement, Brosnan not being convincing and Dalton even worse. I'm 100% against a female 007, but at least Craig made a Bond as was intended.

[@A1Cynic70]

To late Barbara Broccoli. You've already ruined Bond. For the last few movies all he's done is mope around mourning, getting turned down by femme fatales, being emotional and replaced by Lyshana Lynch (who?) Probably just as well that they put him out of his misery in the last outing.

[@robinthepresent2952]

No cocktail parties at the memorial, that is just wrong.

[@scottlewisparsons9551]

There seems to be no end to the depravity of this Victorian state Labor government. They have to go.

[@chazgeorgebatmanhotline7069]

Jamie, Jamie Bond....NO.

[@John-p7i5g]

I'd like to see a 1950s style James Bond.

[@Vickzq]

It started in the 60s as one of the first colored blockbusters.

[@daveretzlaff8391]

@@VickzqThe movies started in the 60s (I think 1962) but the first book came out in 1953.

[@WeveGotBush]

Its a place of remembrance not a Bordello.

[@Yoxiv]

Here's a thought: just make a freaking "female Bond" and call her 008 or something. While I'm not up to date on James Bond lore, I highly doubt that anybody gives a damn about the other 00s and who was who since they clearly change with every continuity. 007 IS James Bond. Not Jamie Bond. Not Jackie Bond. Not Karen Bond. And not Twerkeisha Bond.

[@jokerace8227]

Essentially my thoughts about it as well. Create another agent with a different number who is a woman.

[@vxy357]

"Twerkiesha Bond". LOL! 😆

[@jessejames8900]

Atomic Blonde 2

[@rustysworldofentertainment850]

The Shrine loses $4M a year??? It is long paid for, it needs regular cleaning and an annual engineering inspection, and that is IT, it cannot possibly have any other costs. So where the hell is $4M going???

[@jamesparker1071]

The real James Bond would destroy Amazon.....

[@pookeyhutchison7838]

James Bond is a bloke not a ball tearing Lesbian . This has worked so well for Disney lately .

[@ffloydpepper296]

Q : Taking the character James Bond and usurping a female into the role, is being done due to the inability of Amazon writers to fabricate a storyline of any originality.

[@vulcanvoyager]

Since when was Bond an Anti Hero?

[@josephlamonica4167]

Jane Bond. Wine bottled not boxed

[@artemis009]

I have watched James Bond since my childhood and I'm now 46 and still watch every single one of the movies. Want me to stop watching Bond, turn it into Hane Bond instead of James. Major props to Barbara Broccoli for telling amazon to go to hell with that idea.

[@charlesloomis2224]

Even woman don't want to watch woke movies...don't put it on men to watch this crap.

[@martinepstein3332]

Sean was the best

[@Martinoconnor-du6lc]

what about when they wanted a black yank to be bond?

[@michaelhains2291]

Utterly shameful.

[@walterluus6174]

And audit the bloody government!

[@carlost9454]

I hate that they killed James Bond. They did it to eliminate a strong male figure and insert a character that nobody wants to watch.only the woke. I even resent Daniel Craig for being a part of this. Thank you Broccoli.

[@simonball6560]

I think you need say * eliminate a strong white male figure, which is exactly the same in The Day of the Jackal Tv series.

[@emileneslo5695]

Female James Bond? What's next...male Lara Croft?

[@tatianaoliveira2191]

So basically 'Nathan Drake' from the ''Uncharted'' games...

[@joe18750]

This shouldn't be a surprise. Anecdotally I'd say, more than half of the Action Hero genre leads are now 5 foot 3 inch moms that can beat the snot out of a room full of buffed out martial art trained men. Both Holly-weird and the U.K.'s celluloid Producers are guilty of this unwelcomed and presumptuous trend.

[@mckenziehellenann]

Melbourne's Government decisions just can't get any worse..😢

[@JohnKayes]

I think we should allow these woke directors to produce movies with a female Jennifer Bond. When they lose tens of millions because audiences won't watch it, then their vestigial brains may begin to grow?

[@CaveWyatt]

So happy to hear the Bond news!

[@thecoopjaxthedog4227]

Yeah so believable a 5ft woman kicking the crap out of a 6ft guy Bond will always be a man you don't destroy something that isn't broken.

[@ScottyPimpinATL]

A family controls the James Bond franchise? How odd

[@greyfriars6540]

Jane Bond! Nooooooooooooooo!

[@FraserMitchell-k4j]

This shrine is a centre for Remembrance. It is to remember Australia's war dead and their sacrifice,and is sacred.The government at both the National and State level should increase the nation's awareness through education, not cocktail hour.

[@andrew097]

In Ireland, we have a remarkable garden of remembrance. Considering our chequered history with England it is still a place of dignity, reflection, and respect. Much of our globalits political class these days are anti the communities that elected them. Hopefully we don't see this debate in Ireland.

[@blackukulele]

Atomic Blonde has already been made.

[@stujd1539]

Dr Her was a big flop too!

[@BrucePotter]

I think we should have public cocktail events in the Vic parliamentary bar... or maybe the fleet of parliamentary limousines could be used for Uber?

[@jinnbuster4753]

All those servicemen are operating at a loss. They gave their lives. It is sacred.

[@blankityblank6029]

Imagine that. Woke is a Bond villan.

[@scottmackey4182]

Highly doubt the revenue from cocktail parties will override the losses of maintaining this sacred site.

[@stephaniejooste3879]

I mentioned it earlier today on another comments section that there were enough wonderful women who had sacrificed themselves for the good of the world at large during WWII, like Virginia Hall in SOE, the same group that formed the basis for Ian Fleming's Bond, M, Q and Miss. Moneypenny that they can literally start a parallel storyline but based on the strengths of those women, not bending a true multi generational hero into something that nobody would recognise.

[@craigmajor2812]

What a bunch of grubs.

[@neild3074]

Bond is a roll model.

[@jessejames8900]

Role

[@cdstoc]

Good on the Broccoli family for shutting down a female James Bond. Who wants that? Not me or my wife, and nobody I've talked to either. It destroy the franchise.

[@andymartinez767]

Oh what a world we live in. More snakes than ladders

[@williamcarrington61]

Not shaken nor stirred !

[@stevvieb]

He's called James Bond not Jane Bond.

[@robertholland7558]

Veterans have always been treated with gross disregard.

[@J.TiberiusKirk]

It's high time the 007 film series end completely. There have been six actors playing the character over the sixty + years since the first Bond film hit theaters in 1962. The world does not need another, no matter who it is. Arguably Sean Connery was the best actor portraying the part; and while George Lazenby used to get a lot of flak for being the "worst Bond" the one film he was in- On Her Majesty's Secret Service- is now considered one of the best of the series.

[@philplowman2251]

No this is not right; it's a place of remembrance not parties.

[@Commandoj251]

Thank goodness Ms. Broccoli, more power to you!

[@trevormcnair9690]

Victorian govt out of touch, we all knew that of course….😢

[@jerryh8417]

Businesses must know their audiences. Apparently, doing consumer research is a dying art these days, as so many poor government and corporate decisions have people wondering "what were they thinking".

[@dgreen3759]

We already have one Nakita

[@cynergynt]

Have some respect Victoria, these veterans laid down their lives so that you can have freedom and choice.

[@PhilipRanson-d5t]

Long live James Bond

[@Debra-y6d]

I thought Ian Fleming was against them changing James Bond.

[@9395gb]

There are already female bond type characters like Pam Grier's characters, Lara Croft, and Carmen Sandiego. They can't adapt those. Lara Croft was done by Angelina Jolie, and she did it beautifully.

[@di_r67]

Well said James. It’s our sacred site, leave it alone. We are forced to respect aboriginal ‘sacred sites’ let the government respect this space reserved for respect for our fallen soldiers which, incidentally, includes aboriginal soldiers.

[@parrotraiser6541]

Bond's character makes a female 007 completely absurd. There's nothing wrong with a woman

[@sevensprings460]

Belshazzar had a feast with the sacred objects and paid the price, the Victorian government will ignore the writing on the wall.

[@ozziejim8472]

Surprised woke Hollywood hasn’t made a Wonder WokeMan!

[@Bourne1886]

When will this woke nonsense stop. It’s ridiculous.

[@paulkyriakopoulos3444]

The names WOKE😊BROKE AND WOKE😊.😢😮😅

[@robertjohnson1962]

How about a remake of Cleopatra with Billy Bob Thornton in the lead? We’ve lost the collective plot.

[@nevillegreg1]

James Bond - my favourate line from a JB movie is when Roger Moore told M and coy, he was "getting ready for re-entry" at the end of Moonraker. Stick it in (again) James, yes! Love the play on words in movies like JB. Go woke, go broke.

[@RT-hi1ms]

Jamie Bond will go over as well as the all-fem Ghostbusters did...like a lead balloon. Amazon would be better off not following Dismal's examples of high budget flops.

[@Onceayoungidiot]

Oh FFS. My name is Blonde, Jayne Blonde…. 😂😂😂

[@MickAngelhere]

There were Aboriginals who served and died as well. Reg Saunders the highest ranking Aboriginal soldier would be appalled to hear this. As for James Bond , it started going downhill in the last few movies ,

[@anthonyat2401]

What next - Marty Poppins, John of Arc?... can't think of any more and one of those isn't real.

[@lindageorge8209]

Victoria should get its priorities right. Sydney's shrine of remembrance is not for partying. What kind of phoney yuppies want to have a cocktail party at a place like that?

[@indiathylane2158]

Federal government has a say in Melbourne's memorial, too. Sky rarely tells the whole story.

[@fortheloveofnoise]

As Karen Cartman once said...Put a...😅

[@smokehouse420-x9k]

The rings of power.... enough said

[@ThePastaManCan]

They removed a gay doctor who writer Gareth Roberts for a joke about trans names and the writing has been shit since he was kicked out.

[@dougiekavanagh7508]

James Bond is a male secret service agent. It's a story people. If you want to write a story about Jane Bond have at it.

[@dariusdodd]

If you want a real life James Bond character check out Paddy Mayne. He was a champion golfer, Irish Universities boxer and a British and Irish Lions rugby player who toured South Africa. During WW2 he became an original SAS member under Stirling who destroyed aircraft behind enemy lines. He fought in several theatres and was mentioned in dispatches many times for courage under fire. After the war he went into Law and became Secretary to The law Society of Northern Ireland. Eventually his hard drinking caught up with him and he died crashing his car into a farmers vehicle. Paddy was awarded 4 DSO's and should have been awarded the Victoria Cross for his singular courage at Oldenburg during Operation Howard. Not that he would have cared. Keep your fictional James Bond. Paddy 'The Irish Lion' is the man.

[@Deadwood1919]

No reason to gender-swap Bond. There CAN be a female spy, but that does not mean Jamie Bond. Come up with a new one.

[@kennethtuck-e6e]

sure go ahead and make bond 007 a women and totally ruin the franchise what is wrong with these people ,,,what a joke ,,,,a women bond ,,,,will never fly period

[@beefyoso]

there was already a female 007 in the last film. she was even a minority. it was so cringe that bond lost all his will to live.

[@charleswarriner5121]

Graveyards too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@aminking1574]

A nation founded by convicts.. where r the memorials or muzeums on prison mate??

[@brothermaynard3200]

Incest a problem in your family is it?

[@jasonjudkins2056]

Federal government needs to step in and make it a commonwealth historical place and take over the running by the Australian War graves. They won’t a female bond create your own, they tried that with tv programs like Alias etc.